Function SIG 2026 will be held on July 13-14 in Washington, DC USA

Function SIG Meetings:

Function-SIG 2026 will be held on July 13-14, 2026 as part of ISMB2026 in Washington, DC USA.

Accepting 2026 abstract submissions

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Important Dates:

April 9, 2026 abstract submission deadline (talks and posters)
April 13, 2026 Late Poster Submissions Open (posters only)
May 5, 2026 Talk and/or Poster Acceptance Notifications
May 7, 2026 Late Poster Submissions Deadline
May 14, 2026 Late Poster Acceptance Notifications
 July 13-14, 2026 Function SIG meeting at ISMB 2024

 

See more important dates at the ISMB 2026 site.

Function-SIG 2026 Keynote Speakers

Cathy Wu

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Karin Verspoor

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Talks are sought in, but not limited to, the following topics:

  • Prediction of protein function from varied data such as sequence, structure, expression data
  • The evolution of function
  • The design of function
  • Incorporating computational function prediction into experimental workflows
  • The use of text mining and natural language processing in function prediction
  • The use of machine learning in protein function prediction
  • The representation of biological function by ontologies and other means
  • Data science as applied to protein function datasets
  • Research related to the Critical Assessment of Function Annotation (CAFA)

Programs from previous years

The Function-SIG meeting is funded by the International Society for Computational Biology
In the past, the Function-SIG meetings were funded, in part, by DBI-1458359 and DBI-1458477 from the US National Science Foundation. R13 HG006079 and R13 HG007807 from the US National Institute of Health, as well as US Department of Energy grant DE-SC0006807TDD.

Currently, the CAFA challenge is funded in part, by NIH award  1R01GM145937